Özet:

A teacher training school was opened under the name of Dâru’l Muallimîn-i Sıbyân (1868) to train the teachers to be employed in the first schools opened under the influence of usul-i cedîd movement in the Ottoman Empire. The first principal of this school, which had an important place in the history of education, was Mehmed Cevdet, who had been serving as the assistant in the Ministry of Education for many years, and who had been a member and teacher of the Cemiyet-i Tedrîsiye-i İslâmiyye. It is known that Mehmed Cevdet prepared a booklet to teach literacy in Ottoman Turkish, which was one of the important educational problems of those times, and even taught the teaching method of the alif ba for teacher candidates who studied at Dâru’l Muallimîn-i Sıbyân. Based on various presumptions in some sources that shed light on the period on the history of education, it was stated that Alif ba (1856) or Alif ba Booklet (1867) may have been prepared by Mehmed Cevdet. As a result of the study, it was detected that prepared the alif ba named Feyz’ül amim fî esrari’t-ta'lîm (5th Edition, 1874). The purpose of the study was to provide data on the alif bas and teaching method, which caused Mehmed Cevdet to be referred to as “Elifbeci Cevdet Efendi” in previous studies. In this alif ba, it was firstly aimed to teach Ottoman Turkish literacy to students who attended primary school, and then the signs and reading rules necessary to be able to read the Qur’an were taught. In this alif ba, which includes warnings on how the subjects should be taught, students were informed on good and bad habits in the reading texts. In the present study, which was conducted by using the historical research method, primary and secondary sources, especially archival documents, were used.

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